LimeLabs and Open Kulture invite you to the 2009 NYC Software FreedomDay Celebration!

This year, we will make Software Freedom Day one to remember byreaching out not only to the free and open source software world, but
the community at large. Our production model, our ethos, and ourfocus on transparency, running code and the freedom to share arespreading beyond software to other areas of culture, includinggovernment, media, science, and the arts. We want to make the most of
these cross-disciplinary pursuits by coming together to create newopportunities and rekindle old friendships.

In New York City, Software Freedom Day will mark the launch of aseries of quarterly Open Source / Open Culture events designed to
engage free software hackers, creative commons artists, opengovernment activists, and open science innovators. We want to bringtogether the diverse members of free and open source culture andprovide a platform and an audience with which to collaborate and
create.

The event on September 19th will feature lightning talks by a range ofspeakers designed to address the multifaceted efforts of open culturein New York. These speakers will cover a variety of topics, but all
share one theme: currently active projects that are going to changethe world. The idea is "From Software to Everywhere". Each talk is aninvitation to participate.